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'Woman in White' set itself apart.(SHOW)(THEATER)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 20041015
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Byline: Raymond M. Lane, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LONDON - "The Woman in White," the widely anticipated new Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that recently opened at London's storied Palace Theater, is an arch-Victorian bodice-ripping narrative of sexual identity and power.

Freely adapted from a sensational trashy novel of 1860 by Wilkie Collins (an opium-addicted eccentric and pal of Charles Dickens), the musical begins with the handsome Walter Hartright standing forlorn at a remote railway station in the rugged hill country of northern England.

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